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The Last Speaker

Did the word ever have a meaning?

The Last Speaker

Only one person can speak a dying language. She invents a new word and tells nobody what it means. She dies the next day.

Did the word ever have a meaning?

Then ask

  • Would writing the meaning in a sealed letter change your answer?
  • Can a private word be wrong?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

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  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The Handwriting
  6. The New Song
  7. Same Dog
  8. The Forgery